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    "speaker_name": "Kikuyu, UDA",
    "speaker_title": "Hon. Kimani Ichung’wah",
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    "content": "I have also said without fear of contradiction that I believe in the power of women leaders because they are doing great things as governors. It is not just Governor Wanga, because even my party Chairlady, Governor Cecily Mbarire, is also doing great things in Embu, even with sabotage from a few of us. It may not be everybody who is doing well, and I do not have that latitude to determine. I am not here on a praise and worship session for governors, but I encourage them to work with other leaders and MCAs even as we actualise the provisions of this Bill. They need to use it to encourage not just the co-operation of other leaders, but also of their neighbouring counties and other counties at large. I look forward to the day the governors of Wajir and Marsabit counties will work with the governors of Kiambu, Nyeri and Kericho counties to ensure that things that are not available in their counties are exchanged. There should also be free mobility of labour and capital so that even those of us who come from crowded counties like Kiambu, Kisii and Nyamira, where Hon. Irene Mayaka comes from, will feel free to go and invest in Marsabit, Turkana or Wajir counties. I must commend our brothers and sisters from the far north who are investing across the country. That is the kind of country we all yearn for. I pray that with the enactment of this Bill, and with the support of Members of the National Assembly and the Senators, we shall create better revenue raising measures for our county governments. We should establish measures that do not jeopardise our national interests, but those that encourage not just inter- county trade and mobility of both capital and labour, but also promote business, trade and the prosperity of all of our counties and the nation at large. Hon. Temporary Speaker, with those many remarks, I beg to move and request my very able deputy to second. When I say, ‘my very able deputy’, Member for Kilifi North, Hon. Owen Baya, I mean it. He is ‘my very able deputy’. He cannot even be impeached because he is very able. Thank you, Hon. Temporary Speaker."
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